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Mega Man 9 video walk-through
Having trouble with the retro throwback title Mega Man 9? The blue-bomber's latest outing has more than a few gamers frustrated with its old-school difficulty. Fortunately, GamesRadar has you covered. They've created a video walk-through of each stage, beginning with Splash Woman all the way through to the bitter end with Dr. Wily. Some gamers consider the order you fight the Robot Masters to be spoilers, so we took the liberty of blocking out the order in the above picture. The videos, which are after the jump, ask you for your age before you are allowed to view them, but there is no inappropriate content in them.
Dr. Wily asks for donations in new Mega Man 9 intro
From the looks of the Mega Man 9 opening, we can conclude at least two things: Dr. Wily thinks people are pretty gullible in 20XX and a certain policewoman has apparently switched careers. In the 8-bit tradition of the rest of the game, Capcom presents to us the opening introduction to Mega Man 9. It is quite cute (or cheesy, depending on your POV) and filled with references, with our favorite being Dr. Light's warning to Mega Man: "Be careful out there! You haven't done this in a while!" Trailer after the jump. In other Blue Bomber news, IGN unveiled three of the new Mega Man 9 bosses for us. Honestly, it's a little hard to keep track of all the bosses over the years. Yet another fire-themed boss is shown above; he is known as Magma Man, who carries the weapon Magma Bazooka. Concrete Man and Tornado Man's weapons are Concrete Shot and Tornado Blow respectively, and sprites of them are after the jump. The artwork for each villain and their weapons on Mega Man are in the gallery below. Check it out. %Gallery-29644%
PS3 Fanboy hands-on: Mega Man 9
[Editor's note: We played the Wii version of this game. If you're worried about the graphics being different for the PS3 version ... you're probably looking at the wrong hands-on article.]Mega Man 2 is my earliest truly memorable gameplay experience, so it's a bizarre feeling to be getting hands-on time with a game that looks identical fifteen years later. Make no bones about it, though. Mega Man 9 looks identical to the old NES games from the series. Capcom said they were taking the series back to its roots, and that's what they've done; difficulty included. If you've never played a NES Mega Man game, firstly -- shame on you! Secondly, you'll probably be confused by Mega Man 9's graphics. These are pixelated 8-bit sprite graphics at their finest. In fact, the game looks like it borrows assets from Mega Man 2. Particularly the forest level, where the background looks almost identical. Speaking of levels, there were only two available and they were both hard as nails. Mega Man 9 is going to make you weep like no modern game has done in years. During the levels I played, Mega Man doesn't have any particularly special abilities. No charge beam and no slide tackle. Rush returns with a spring in his back, letting you reach higher ledges, but that's it. There's no indication whether you'll be able to pick up these skills later in the game or not, but I'm hoping so. Even Mega Man 4 had the charge beam.%Gallery-28416%
